Putin called the fire itself – Independent Newspaper

Pogoreltsev of Khakassia president promised money and guilty officials – resignation

to shift the responsibility on the shoulders ordinary people do not become president. Photo Reuters

 

Vladimir Putin yesterday visited the affected fire the Republic of Khakassia. To conduct spetssoveschanii President made a number of traditional leader of the country statements. Residents he promised to pay compensation and to restore housing, and the guilty officials – pay on merit. However, a more general suggestions on how you can do to prevent the annual spring fires, the authorities have not sounded.

  
 

One of the victims of the fire yesterday complained to the President for the unavailability of local officials – say, come to him, but not dostuchishsya. If they are not guilty, said the head of state, it will not chase anyone. And if guilty – answer. “Put us a bit later, give work”, – said the head of this Khakassia Viktor Zimin.

  
 

Before the regional authorities Putin yesterday staged several tasks. Firstly, do not delay the payment of compensation. Second, the president demanded to restore people without bureaucratic red tape lost in fires documents. Third, the already September 1 and the need to build new homes. Performance of the last punishment Putin promised to personally check and a half or two months.

  
 

For more conceptual proposals relate statement by the President on the establishment of a “integrator” – to develop a unified approach to the regions affected by the fires. Coordination is planned to entrust presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District Nikolai Rogozhkin, which, by the way, before somehow accused of arson of a kind of “opposition.” Your coordinator for these issues may appear in the government. Special order at the end of the trip will be prepared within two days, the president said.

  
 

draw conclusions, I think, will remain on then – and many are likely to be dependent on the results of the investigation verification. Thus, the Investigation Committee (IC) of Russia will ensure the use of budget funds allocated for fire prevention measures. However, the strategic work of fire prevention personnel decisions did not name. The problem is much deeper, as evidenced by the statistics. This fire activity, for example, was developed after 2010, when the smog covered Moscow and Moscow region. Peatlands have been flooded, and citizens were assured MOE, that the situation will not happen again. In 2011, the number of fires has decreased by more than four times. But then there was a growth in the Far East and Siberia, and in 2014 a fire swept the area, many times more than last year.

  
 

The approaches to solving the problem of repeated fires each year are seen by different authorities in different ways. For instance, the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev demanded his deputies put an end to slash and burn farming method. The fact that the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin told him that 93% of fires occur because of the human factor: “This so-called controlled burning dry grass.” Like, it reduces the cost of preparation for planting. “And why in other countries do not burn the grass? – Said the prime minister. – There backward farmers, or what? “Note that in fact more like a tourniquet. So, guilty of a major fire in 1982 in the East Kalimantan in Indonesia were peasants, burned forests to prepare new areas for crops.

  
 

It is worth noting that the government consider it necessary to make the exercise of the powers by one of the activities lesoohranoy performance criteria governors. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Security Committee Dmitry Gorovtsov also believes that the responsibility of the regional and municipal authorities to prevent fires should be strengthened. Moreover, in his opinion, not so much in the form of increased administrative penalties as disciplinary and officials. In short, to take in respect of not coping appropriate personnel decisions. So we are talking only about the effective control: the federal Center for regional leaders, those – the municipal officials, and the latter, in turn, – the behavior of citizens and businesses.

  
 

The State Duma, meanwhile, yet vouchsafed only to the traditional response – the lower house a bill to impose an outright ban on the burning of dry vegetation. Another look at the problem is at the upper house of parliament. The Federation Council, for example, calls go back to the law on compulsory insurance of property. With Senator Victor Kress reflect on the subject and agreed to the Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.

  
 

But such initiatives appear as a belated and, most importantly, repeated reaction to the “sudden” disasters. On compulsory insurance of real estate mentioned in 2008, then – in 2010. Documents are ready, but their fate was sad. Obstacle was the inability of the majority of the population and pay for insurance conditional 0.5-1% per annum of the appraised value of the property, and underdevelopment of the domestic insurance market, carefully protects them from foreign competitors. While it appears that insurers because of fear of burn could more effectively convince people to take care of their property.

  
 

The President, on the contrary, as it takes the average person with a duty to monitor their own property, that is, in this case, clearly follows the “politics with the heart” of which he recently spoke to all the people on their “straight line”. General Director of the Center for Political Information Alexei Mukhin believes that the authorities of such problems one headache. He argues, for example, that the law does not solve the problem of fires. And, experts say, “there is such a business, when this kind of disaster provoked by the population in order to obtain compensation for obsolete housing.” In the Russian mentality sees the problem and vice-president of the Center for Political Technologies, Alexei Makarkin. Cause of the fire, he said, can serve as a deviant behavior, that is banal hooliganism and disobedience and lightheadedness. The situation with the fire, he compared the challenge of fishermen who have to save each year with a breakaway ice floes. Law, said, “NG” political analyst, is not solved. You can prevent forest burn, but they did not obey, and to prohibit citizens bonfires, but with the same success, they say that the forest.

  
 

As for Putin’s behavior, then, according to Makarkin, so do policies in all countries. “When re-elected Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, he has been around the odds with the opposition. And suddenly flood. Schroeder showed himself an active and effective manager – and won. ” Not solve the problem of fires never anyone – can only reduce its effects. And the governors oblige to monitor these issues is not: “What they can do? Or go with a gun to protect forests or people on their knees to pray. ”